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Search Timelines:. Stay Connected. Subscribe to the ARDA:. GIS Maps. All Rights Reserved. The secularization of public schools and the advent of federal protection for abortion rights roused evangelicals and conservative Catholics during the s, leading to the formation of several Christian advocacy groups, including the Moral Majority in The Moral Majority supported Ronald Reagan in the presidential election of and was credited with part of his landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, formerly an evangelical darling in The Moral Majority's success turned Falwell into a household name, even as the organization became a victim of its own success the late s.
The U. Supreme Court had banned official prayers in public schools, upheld abortion rights, and protected free speech for pornographers. Popular evangelical authors like Francis Schaeffer warned that these decisions were the fruit of a campaign by "secular humanists" to transform America from its true origins as a Christian nation.
Schaeffer and other conservative intellectuals called for a mass response from evangelical Christians who had been traditionally reluctant to engage in electoral politics. In the late s, however, they responded and a loose network of conservative Christian advocacy groups -- including the Christian Voice, the Moral Majority, the Religious Roundtable, and the National Christian Action Coalition -- were formed.
These groups were at the center of the movement that academics later labeled the New Christian Right. The Moral Majority was the largest and most influential of these groups and Jerry Falwell was the key to that success.
Falwell, a fundamentalist Baptist minister in Lynchburg, Virginia, had been leery of political activism prior to the s. Of course, Falwell's sermon was itself quite political in its refusal to challenge the segregated status quo, but it also is a prime example of the belief, common among evangelicals prior to the s, that the church should remain above formal politics. During the late s and early s, Falwell's beliefs on race and politics shifted, in part because of the influence of Francis Schaeffer, who first alerted him to the significance of Roe v.
The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon. I think a large majority of our fans are [other] nationalities. House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker. This is a state, after all, where Duke, in his statewide race for governor in , received a majority of the white vote. Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
Ever since his majority Lord Hetton had annually entered a colt in the great race. Such mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage. And so these features take on a kind of moral rightness before they are judged of as pleasing to the eye and as beautiful. Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant.
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